From all studies I have read I'm very concerned about EMFs for myself and my family including grandchildren. GreenMedInfo lists the studies but I have heard of the dangers from other reputable sources.
As digital infrastructure, mobile networks (5G/6G), Wi-Fi, smart devices, and wearable technology continue to expand rapidly into homes, schools, and public spaces, a transparent, rigorous, and up-to-date federal re-evaluation of human health impacts is both timely and necessary.
Key Areas for Federal Focus
1. Vulnerable Populations and Children:
Special attention must be directed toward children, adolescents, and pregnant women. Children have developing neurological and biological systems and higher relative absorption rates in head tissues from mobile devices. Federal research priorities should explicitly evaluate long-term, cumulative exposure patterns starting from early childhood.
2. Cumulative and Multi-Frequency Exposures:
Most legacy safety guidelines evaluate single-source, short-term thermal effects. Modern living involves chronic, low-level, multi-frequency exposure from overlapping cell towers, Wi-Fi routers, Bluetooth devices, and smart meters. HHS should prioritize research that mimics real-world, cumulative co-exposures rather than isolated laboratory conditions.
3. Independent Scientific Review and Regulatory Harmonization:
Current U.S. exposure standards differ significantly from guidelines in other international jurisdictions. HHS should conduct an independent, transparent synthesis of peer-reviewed literature—differentiating independent scientific findings from industry-funded assessments—to determine whether current federal safety limits adequately protect public health.
4. Public Health Surveillance and Reporting Mechanisms:
The department should establish clearer pathways for clinicians and citizens to report and document adverse health experiences potentially linked to chronic environmental or technological exposures, improving post-market surveillance.
Thank you for opening this critical dialogue and inviting public input. I urge HHS to adopt a precautionary, evidence-based approach that prioritizes long-term biological safety, closes existing research gaps, and updates federal guidance to reflect modern wireless density.
When it comes to cellphone and microwave towers the three main factors that affect human health are:
1. Proximity.
2. Intensity.
3. Duration.
Proximity: How close you are to the tower both horizontally and vertically.
Intensity: The number and types of transmitters on the tower.
Duration: How long you are in the area of the tower.
The cellphone tower has recently significantly increased, with 5G transmitters added to the tower. My wife and I have experienced numerous physical problems resulting in symptoms like headaches, difficulty sleeping, excessive thirst and other problems. We are also concerned about the health of our neighbors, particularly those with children and grandchildren. Several pets, ours and neighbors', have also suffered unexplained fatal symptoms.
I experienced exposure from my cell phone in my bra. I used my bra as a storage place to listen to music while I exercised. I always put it in the same pocket whether I was working in the garden or biking over a three month period of time. I had healthy breast tissue and after three months of doing this four or five times a week for an hour at a time, I developed a lump in my breast directly under the place that I stored my phone. I had a mammogram and multiple evaluations done over one and a half year time window to make sure it was not growing and becoming larger and immediately stopped putting my cell phone in that location. Removing the phone from that location may have been the primary reason the growth did not get larger. At the time I was in my late 20s. I would like to see further research on cell phone towers, near businesses, churches, and schools and the effect, as well as phones in pockets against the body.
Please look into what happens when several cell phone/tv/ etc towers are placed in close proximity to each other. We used to live in a small city that had 14 towers and about 11 of them were clustered together and visible on my front door step. Multiple of my neighbors had breast cancer simultaneously last year, as well as multiple times in their past. I don't know if it was from the towers or some other environmental concerns nearby, such as the cement factories, steel mill, power plant, and the chemical bottling plant. It was a beautiful city, but we had to move after frequent contagious upper respiratory infections and then my child was diagnosed with Celiac. This was in Cedar Hill, Texas. Erin Brokovich herself came to see and stated that she was concerned by the things she saw/ learned in that area (nearby Midlothian, Texas). So far as I know, that was in regards to the cement factories. I don't think anyone has looked into the radio towers. Every study or report that I could find only evaluated one tower at a time, not what happens when many are bouncing waves off each other. The city of Cedar Hill website boasts that they have more of those towers closer together than any place else (or something like that). This would be a good place for you to study the impact of these things.
Experienced both headaches and ear ringing when holding the cell phone close to my ear, which subsides when cell phone is put on a surface and speaker phone is used. Also, when sleeping in a place where the router is on, sleep is very poor. In a place where the router is turned off, sleep is dramatically improved. When stayed in a building next to a cell tower, child had severe nosebleeds daily that subsided when away from the cell tower.
My family and I warmly welcome HHS looking into this matter. It is something that we have been very concerned about for many years. Back in 2003, I was aware that cellphone towers were not permitted to be erected within a certain distance of schools in parts of Europe. When I moved to the US and attended my first city council meeting, there was a proposal on the agenda to erect a cellphone tower in the area. I asked the City council members about the research on negative health impacts from EMFs and wireless radiation exposure, and whether the city council had a restriction on the placement of cellphone towers near schools as in Europe. I was told that the City was prohibited from placing any such restrictions. This was shocking to me, but I soon learned that a lot of things that were prohibited in Europe for health and safety reasons were permitted in the US. I could not understand why elected representatives of the people had such little regard for the health and safety of the people they represented. I then came to learn that government at almost every level in the US had been captured by corporate special interests. My own experience with EMFs, RF radiation and Wireless Radiation is that I get an unpleasant tingling sensation in my hand when I hold a cellphone that is not in airplane mode. And that sensation occurs more quickly and more severely when I am holding my partner's iPhone 14 than when I am holding my own iPhone X. And the impact from my iPhone X appears to be greater than when I hold my old iPhone 6. I don't know if I am more sensitive than other people, or whether I am just more observant. I have also observed that I get headaches when I am in a car with a phone that is not on airplane mode, and particularly when the car windows are all closed. In addition to the cellphone issue, my neighbor's infant child experienced very negative effects from the moment that smart meters were installed on our condo building. The meters for all 6 units were installed on the outside wall of our neighbor's unit, and were specifically located on the outside wall of that neighbor's infant child's bedroom. He began exhibiting signs of distress when he went to bed at night, and even engaged in head hitting and head banging behavior. After a few weeks of this, our neighbors took their child to stay with relatives in another city, and the child's distress and behaviors instantly ceased.
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